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☆ These were the 100 hottest digital brands of 2022, according to Similarweb data
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

AutomotiveGas prices over the $6.00 mark are advertised at a Mobil Station in Santa Monica, California, May 23, 2022. David Swanson/ReutersAutomotive brands online saw growth in 2022 thanks to inflation, Similarweb said in a summary of its top 100 brands. Higher gas prices, in particular, forced consumers to find ways to save money. "We are seeing growth in price comparison sites, especially in oil/gas and auto, as well as growth in sites for do-it-yourself and loyalty rewards programs.," the company said. Tireagent.comTraffic: 6.8MYoY change: 86.9%5.

☆ Sephora is dropping the beauty lines of TikTok stars Addison Rae and Hyram Yarbro
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Madeline Berg | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Influencer brands Item Beauty and Selfless by Hyram are being pulled from Sephora. Addison Rae launched Item Beauty in 2020, while Hyram Yarbro launched Selfless in 2021. Insider has confirmed from a well-connected industry source that Sephora will be pulling Addison Rae's Item Beauty and Hyram Yarbro's Selfless by Hyram from its shelves. Item Beauty was launched in August 2020 by Rae, who shot to internet fame by replicating viral dances on TikTok. There are bright spots among celebrity-backed brands, like Selena Gomez's Rare BeautyThat isn't to say that all celebrity-founded beauty brands have fared poorly.

☆ Twitter alternatives like Mastadon see downloads plunge
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Long before Elon Musk came along, Twitter users bemoaned the service yet remained addicted to it. It is a text-based social platform, or "microblogging" site, home to independent servers, or "instances." In early November, the hashtag TwitterMigration was trending on Mastodon for several days as Twitter users set up accounts amid Musk's chaotic takeover. Daily users have held steady though, at 1.4 million, a major increase from its usage prior to Musk's takeover of Twitter, which typically hovered around 20,000 daily users. Downloads of the iOS app have grown 290,000% to 1.5 million since Oct. 24, with daily users up 660,000% to 321,000, according to Apptopia data.

☆ Twitter alternatives that got traction after Elon Musk takeover are suddenly seeing downloads plunge. Which has staying power and who is the next Clubhouse?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Long before Elon Musk came along, Twitter users bemoaned the service yet remained addicted to it. It is a text-based social platform, or "microblogging" site, home to independent servers, or "instances." In early November, the hashtag TwitterMigration was trending on Mastodon for several days as Twitter users set up accounts amid Musk's chaotic takeover. Daily users have held steady though, at 1.4 million, a major increase from its usage prior to Musk's takeover of Twitter, which typically hovered around 20,000 daily users. Yet, it has maintained more than 500,000 daily users.

☆ 4 hurdles Walmart needs to clear in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Ben Tobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Analysts expect the retailer to work through excess inventory in 2023, but obstacles may arise. Here are four major Walmart challenges to watch in 2023. Expanding clinic presence is a 'must' to create major healthcare gainsA Walmart Health clinic. In 2022, Walmart saw competitors like Amazon make major healthcare splashes. Part of expansion has been announced for 2023, as Walmart plans to launch 16 more clinics in Florida by the end of the year.

☆ Walmart shoppers are flocking to stores for cheap groceries, while website visits languish — proving how vital its stores are in a tough economy
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Ben Tobin | Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But while online shopping has dipped this year, more people have been flocking back to Walmart stores. According to estimates from Placer.ai, a location-data company, Walmart stores saw a 1% increase in the average number of daily shoppers through December 4 compared to the same year prior. But those customers are typically not buying food online, according to Yarbrough. Online food sales slowing across retailersWalmart is the top US grocer. The membership platform that launched in 2020 incentivizes online shopping by offering free delivery.

SYDNEY, Nov 28 (Reuters) - When Melbourne barista Melinda Elliott had to cut back on casual work shifts this year, she asked her buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) provider, Afterpay, to lower her credit limit. "There was no email to say, 'your credit limit's gone up again'; it was out of nowhere," said Elliott by phone. The absence of interest charges has exempted them from consumer credit regulation, and the sector's business has grown strongly during an online shopping frenzy spurred by COVID-19 stimulus payments and ultra-low interest rates. If they come under regular consumer credit regulation, they will also lose their main competitive advantages. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission, which oversees the Credit Act, told Reuters it was "supportive of the BNPL sector being subject to regulation".

☆ JCPenney was once a shopping giant. Can it make a comeback?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

People walk past a JCPenney store at the Queens Center Mall in New York in 2016. The Denver Post/Getty Images Shoppers hurry across an intersection in front of a JCPenney store in Denver in 1964. Anne Cusack/The Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Customers shop at a new JCPenney store in New York in 2009. Mary Altaffer/AP A customer goes down an escalator at a JCPenney store in Westminster, Colorado, in 2009. Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images JCPenney CEO Jill Soltau speaks during an interview in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2019.

☆ How Dexerto became 'the TMZ of esports,' with $10 million in revenue last year and 30 million monthly visitors
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

On the homepage of Dexerto, a seven-year-old gaming-news website, staid posts about competitive esports commingle with screaming headlines about online gossip. Dexerto — pronounced "desert-o," "as if the x was an s," the cofounder and CEO, Joshua Nino, said — was founded on "sport-style esports coverage." Today, dexerto.com attracts 30 million monthly visitors, it said — a formidable sum, though less than 30-year-old stalwarts like IGN and GameSpot, which clocked 98 million and 69 million monthly visits in September, according to the web-analytics firm Similarweb. Direct-ad sales account for about half of revenue, with programmatic ads (30%) and social monetization (20%) making up the rest. Nino said Dexerto had been mostly bootstrapped — aside from about £257,000 in seed funding — and had been profitable since 2016.

Twitter usage is about to spike as the 2022 World Cup kicks off this weekend. Hundreds of employees have just left the company, rejecting Musk's "hardcore" vision for Twitter. Supporting a major event, like the World Cup, will come with challenges for the skeleton staff. The World Cup is soccer's most prestigious tournament held every four years and is watched by billions of people worldwide. In 2014, the World Cup set the record for tweets per minute, doubling the current average of roughly 350,000 tweets a minute.

☆ Twitter insiders are getting more worried that the site is at massive risk of crashing under Elon Musk's reign
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Kali Hays | Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Thousands of Twitter employees have been laid off, and Twitter cut costs in infrastructure. Twitter is already under strainA big test for Twitter will be the FIFA World Cup, which kicks off this weekend. In 2018, Twitter boasted its "massive role" in World Cup fandom that year and live matches, which drove 115 billion views of tweets with the World Cup hashtag. The tool was affected by Musk's decision on Monday to turn off the many "microservices" at Twitter, a current employee said. But convincing people to return to the chaos under Musk has been a tough sell, two current employees said.

☆ Here are the 25 fastest-growing DTC brands, according to monthly traffic and Q3 growth from Similarweb data
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

United by BlueA post shared by United By Blue (@unitedbyblue)Average monthly visits to site: 716,000Quarter-over-quarter web-traffic growth: 94%Founders: Mike Cangi, Brian LintonUnited by Blue sells clothing, handbags, accessories, and home goods. It also makes many of its products from recycled materials, such as a Mini Duffle bag made from recycled nylon. The company sells through its own website as well as retail partners like REI. Part of the motivation to sell through its own brick-and-mortar stores and retail partners is carbon emissions, Cangi told Retail Dive in May. E-commerce, by contrast, is "probably the worst" way of selling when it comes to carbon emissions, he added.

Weber , which went public in August 2021 and is trading at half its offering price, is the latest example of a recent IPO to attract a bid to go private. Recent IPOs ducking for the door First, to understand why we selected these criteria, let's look at the recent deals. Kennedy Lewis' $4 per share cash offer was an 83% premium to F45's closing price ahead of the deal announcement, even though it was far below the stock's $16 IPO price. Even with the lift from the deal news, shares are only trading at less than half its $14 IPO price. Private equity company AEA Investors had a 28.4% stake in the company, and CEO Jeremy Andrus owns an 11% stake, according to FactSet.

☆ Everything you need to know about Parler, the right-wing social media platform Kanye West is planning to buy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Allana Akhtar | Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Kanye West, now known as Ye, is in talks to buy right-wing social media platform Parler. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is entering a deal to buy right-wing social-media platform Parler, which launched in 2018. Meanwhile, Trump's platform Truth Social had 8,956,693 visitors, and Gab had 12,806,464 visitors, per Similarweb's analysis. What's on the Parler app? In February, Trump launched the Truth Social social media platform 13 months after being kicked off Facebook and Twitter after the January 6 Capitol riot.

☆ Kanye West has long bragged that he has the attention of 'the youth,' but his audience will be older after his move to Parler
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Parler's users lean older, and West has a fraction of the followers on Parler that he does on Twitter. If Ye now turns to Parler as his primary communication channel online, his online audience will significantly change. Ye had around 2,800 followers on Parler as of early Monday, a fraction of his audience on Twitter and Instagram. About 60% of Twitter users are between the ages of 18 and 34, according to data from traffic analytics company Similarweb. 34% of Parler users are 55 years or older, while just over 10% of Twitter users are in the same age group, according to Similarweb.

☆ JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 'very smart' Elon Musk should 'clean up Twitter' and remove bot accounts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told CNBC he hopes tech billionaire Elon Musk "cleans up Twitter." He expressed concerns about the number of spam accounts on the site. Musk cited bot accounts when he backed down from his Twitter takeover deal earlier this year. "I hope Musk cleans up Twitter," Dimon told CNBC at the JPM Techstars conference in London. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2021 that Musk has spurned the bank for years and that Musk and Dimon have personally clashed.

☆ (статистика) Pornhub входит в десятку самых посещаемых сайтов в мире
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-21 | by ( ) ru.diez.md time to read: 1 min

(статистика) Pornhub входит в десятку самых посещаемых сайтов в миреСайт фильмов для взрослых Pornhub занимает 10-е место в списке самых просматриваемых сайтов на планете. Согласно данным similarweb , он опережает Amazon, Yahoo и Яндекс. Рейтинг самых посещаемых сайтов в мире выглядит следующим образом:# google.com;# youtube.com;# facebook.com;# twitter.com;# instagram.com;# baidu.com;# wikipedia.org;# xvideos.com;# xnxx.com;# pornhub.com. По статистике, за последние полгода сайт посетили 3,31 миллиарда человек, а средняя продолжительность сеанса составила около девяти минут.

Organizations: Yahoo, Яндекс Locations: миреСайт

☆ (statistică) Pornhub intră în top 10 cele mai vizionate site-uri de pe planetă
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-15 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Site-ul de filme pentru adulți Pornhub se află pe locul 10 în lista celor mai vizionate site-uri de pe planetă. Ratingul celor mai vizitate site-uri din lume arată în modul următor:# google.com;# youtube.com;# facebook.com;# twitter.com;# instagram.com;# baidu.com;# wikipedia.org;# xvideos.com;# xnxx.com;# pornhub.com. Potrivit statisticilor, în ultimele șase luni, site-ul a fost vizitat de către 3,31 miliarde de oameni, iar durata medie a unei sesiuni a fost de aproximativ nouă minute. Pe locul doi se clasează Japonia cu puțin peste 10 %, iar pe locul trei este Germania cu 6 %. Mai multe recorduri și antirecorduri ale moldovenilor pe Pornhub vedeți aici.

Organizations: Amazon, Yahoo Locations: Statele Unite, Japonia, Germania

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